Boomkin DPS - Single target help!

Hello guys, I am trying to work on my single target DPS. I am usually top DPS when it comes to multi target, e.g first boss in mv or council of elders (been doing it on LFR and this fight seems perfect for balance). When it comes to single target I am way behind all the classes. Here is my rotation, armory.

0. Put your mushrooms before pull on the boss location (where he will be tanked).
1. 25 energy to lunar.
2. Starfall
3. Wrath
4. Lunar Eclipse
5. Incarnation + NV (if thats the level 90 talent you chose)
6. Moonfire + sunfire
7. Starsurge
8. Starfall again if it dropped. If not do 1 x Starfire then do starfall.
9. Starfire till your energy reaches 0... ( be in the middle of the energy bar) Not in solar not in lunar.
10. Celestial Alignment + berserk ( you should by now have 15 seconds left from incarnation and NV) meaning you got a full 15 seconds of Incarnation + nv + celestial alignment + the berserked dots. If you have a on use trinket now would be the time to use it.
11. DO 1 moonfire or 1 sunfire and blow up your mushrooms. (they are not on the global cd)
12. starsurge on CD or on PROCS
13. spam starfire till all cd's drop and you will enter solar.
14. NOTE- 2 seconds before the cooldowns drop refresh your dots by doing 1 moonfire or sunfire.
15. continue your rotation normally from this point

0. Put your mushrooms before pull on the boss location (where he will be tanked).
1. 25 energy to lunar.
2. Starfall
3. Wrath
4. Lunar Eclipse
5. Incarnation + NV (if thats the level 90 talent you chose)
6. Moonfire + sunfire
7. Starsurge
8. Starfall again if it dropped. If not do 1 x Starfire then do starfall.
9. Starfire till your energy reaches 0... ( be in the middle of the energy bar) Not in solar not in lunar.
10. Celestial Alignment + berserk ( you should by now have 15 seconds left from incarnation and NV) meaning you got a full 15 seconds of Incarnation + nv + celestial alignment + the berserked dots. If you have a on use trinket now would be the time to use it.
11. DO 1 moonfire or 1 sunfire and blow up your mushrooms. (they are not on the global cd)
12. starsurge on CD or on PROCS
13. spam starfire till all cd's drop and you will enter solar.
14. NOTE- 2 seconds before the cooldowns drop refresh your dots by doing 1 moonfire or sunfire.
15. continue your rotation normally from this point

It's the same rotation I posted -.- you just call CA at the middle which is pointless, let me explain. While you enter lunar and you cast "berserk" you can easly go to solar from that point just by using starfire. i think it's better to cast CA soonest you reach solar becasue then you will be able to use 2x starfall instead of 1 and you only waste like 5sec of your NV/Inca.

That was correct at start of expansion, but now with current levels of haste and crit, you are almost never able to cast the uneclipsed DoT first simply because the haste makes cicles shorter and crit extends the DoT quite a bit. So in your strategy you would overwrite the previously eclipsed DoT currently rolling.

You are far better off refreshing the first that falls off.

Originally Posted by Demologize

It's the same rotation I posted -.- you just call CA at the middle which is pointless, let me explain. While you enter lunar and you cast "berserk" you can easly go to solar from that point just by using starfire. i think it's better to cast CA soonest you reach solar becasue then you will be able to use 2x starfall instead of 1 and you only waste like 5sec of your NV/Inca.

It's the same rotation I posted -.- you just call CA at the middle which is pointless, let me explain. While you enter lunar and you cast "berserk" you can easly go to solar from that point just by using starfire. i think it's better to cast CA soonest you reach solar becasue then you will be able to use 2x starfall instead of 1 and you only waste like 5sec of your NV/Inca.

/facepalm

youre wasting inc and its remaining time. check your spellbook and its description. inc lasts for 30 secs, CA for 15 .. get it? while popping ca right after entering solar, youre wasting a "free" NG aswell. further youre wasting the 1st starfall BEFORE entering lunar. so the rotation should start like this

@ Juvencus I refresh mine before zerker drops (with 5 seconds left of CA) this means dots drop off just before i'm leaving solar, so I can redot at the end of solar and then towards the end of the next lunar.

Hi there, I'm kinda hijacking this thread since I have some questions pertaining to Boomkin DPS mechanics. I'm helplessly new to the class and playing it as my alt, so I haven't been here to research all these things I don't have the answer to mid fight.

One thing I am confused on is, say a situation where my Moonfire dot falls off in the middle of my wrath section and I need to cast 3 more wraths to hit Lunar Eclipse. Should I redot regardless and then reapply when eclipse happens? Not at all? Not refresh it? Kinda a minor thing but I'm just wondering whats best in that situation.

Also, I think this is an obvious answer but I'd like to hear it from other people. Say in fights where there are more than one target to attack, like Stone Guards or Council of Elders, should I focus on dotting all targets, all the time? Even if it makes it so that I'm doing nothing but dotting, Starsurge and starfall the entire fight?

Hi there, I'm kinda hijacking this thread since I have some questions pertaining to Boomkin DPS mechanics. I'm helplessly new to the class and playing it as my alt, so I haven't been here to research all these things I don't have the answer to mid fight.

One thing I am confused on is, say a situation where my Moonfire dot falls off in the middle of my wrath section and I need to cast 3 more wraths to hit Lunar Eclipse. Should I redot regardless and then reapply when eclipse happens? Not at all? Not refresh it? Kinda a minor thing but I'm just wondering whats best in that situation.

Also, I think this is an obvious answer but I'd like to hear it from other people. Say in fights where there are more than one target to attack, like Stone Guards or Council of Elders, should I focus on dotting all targets, all the time? Even if it makes it so that I'm doing nothing but dotting, Starsurge and starfall the entire fight?

Sorry if these are all answered to death already.

You shouldn't (have to) apply uneclipsed DoTs, it's simply not worth it. What you should however is preplan before you leave an eclipse and before NG drops and see if they would drop midway and refresh them with those buffs still up.

Multidotting refers to applying dots to all targets once (maybe refresh original target if they are dropping before eclipse+NG drop, in case you got many targets to cover) and then moving to next eclipse to do the same while greatly assisted by SS procs.

Some multidoting fights you will apply both dots to all, some only eclipsed dot. I believe (and doing it) that's up to 3 targets both dots, for 4 and up both dots to focus target and rest eclipse only. But correct me if I'm wrong.